போதும் பெறாவிடில் பச்சிலை உண்டு புனலுண்டெங்கும்ஏதும் பெறாவிடில் நெஞ்சுண்டன் றேஇணை யாகச் செப்பும்சூதும் பெறாமுலை பங்கர்தென் தோணி புரேசர்வண்டின்தாதும் பெறாத அடித்தா மரைசென்று சார்வதற்கே.
In plain words
If you cannot get even flowers, there are green leaves, there is water. If you can get nothing anywhere at all, there is the heart, is there not? It is there for going to reach the lotus of his feet, from which no bee has got even sweet pollen. He is the Lord of southern Tōṇipuram, who has as his half the one whose breasts neither a cup nor a gaming piece can equal.
Line by line
If you do not get even flowers, there are green leaves, there is water; anywhere, if you get nothing at all, there is the heart, is there not? As equal, the cup and the gaming piece too cannot win, the breasts, he who has her as his half, the Lord of southern Tōṇipuram; the bee, sweet pollen even has not got, the lotus feet: for going and reaching them, indeed.